> I just wrote one quick example of the effects that belief in creationism roughly correlate with. Do you think that "burn down all the trees because Jesus is

> I just wrote one quick example of the effects that belief in creationism roughly correlate with. Do you think that "burn down all the trees because Jesus is coming," is a common attitude among creationists? If you do, it seems like an unwarranted leap without more data. IMHO, there's nothing about believing that the world was created 10,000 years ago that implies the end of the world is very imminent, and the kind attitudes you describe only make sense that context. In any case, my intuition says that various kinds of quotidian short-term thinking and unwillingness to make personal sacrifices would be much bigger cause for rejecting environmentalism than any kind of hard ideological reasoning (like religion). And in this case, the imminent doomsday argument for anti-environmentalism really feels like a backwards justification for policy preferences chosen for other reasons.